Christmas at Number 29
Whilst this post is going live at a point where everyone will be winding down for the festive season, thinking about packing away decorations for another year, and getting over their…
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A Hallway Makeover
There is something about a hallway which, I feel, pulls an entire home together. Perhaps it’s because it is the first room you’ll normally see when you enter a house,…
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Garden Update: DIY Timber Decking
One beautiful Autumnal day early this November, we added decking to our garden. As usual, I am using the collective “we”, when in reality I am merely the storyteller in…
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The House With The Blue Door
As part of “Operation: Get The House Ready Before Baby Clough Arrives” we’ve plastered, painted, carpeted and done a lot of scrubbing, and 2014 has been a hard year of…
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A Living Room Update: Part 2
The skirting and coving have been added and replaced – respectively – and the next stage in this living room makeover includes wallpaper. (Read all about those additions in my…
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A Living Room Update: Part 1
I remember September 2011 very clearly. We had just bought our house at the tail end of the previous month and it was what a house inspector referred to as…
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Joe’s Beginner’s Guide to DIY Tools & Products
Fed up of hearing from me all the time? It’s okay. I won’t be offended. There’s another person around here who wants to have a say too, and he’s the…
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Hallway Progress: Finally Plastered!
Thanks for everyone who had kind words to say about my last post on the hallway. For those who missed it, here it is! , and for my biggest fans out there…
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Garden Borders in 20 minutes: An EcoBorders Review
How beautiful was the weather today? I absolutely love Autumn. It’s sunny enough to put a smile on everyone’s face, but crisp and cold enough to crack out the winter…
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When a DIY plan goes up in smoke…
Last Christmas, I felt really down in the dumps about our house. We were smack bang in the middle of renovating the kitchen. There was a hole in the back…
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